https://www.timrietenbach.com/recent-work daily 1.0 2026-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1736623634176-P03LETBQJZSCBWALAZ4S/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Gun Show 13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1736623634176-P03LETBQJZSCBWALAZ4S/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Gun Show 13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1712355333847-65NINXXG80B5FGUJ04PW/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Gun Show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635644673172-RGO3OS8TX4XU3PVAE5P4/5+last+Breath+copy.jpg Recent Work - Lung 24”X30”X6” 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162910310-8T8P97WXXHCP08ZTZ57O/4.Greatness.jpg Recent Work - Greatness 2018 12’X8’ Inspired by a map of militias https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635380912115-E3BMLGK2SVU9E0NKMDVK/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Punch Drunk 84”X 168”X2” - 2020-2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1608930207471-QKC8J75FTLKCBKLILTCR/Space.jpg Recent Work - Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570487185630-TPK012H2EPBDNIEAVFZI/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Angela Meleca Gallery - Fake Video by Erek Nass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635635331208-634LQFB0ER20VU36P4LA/Unknown.jpeg Recent Work - 50 Black Holes 4’X7’ 2018 Post election Flag proposal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321091974-933UEL4Q9WC2ALO1PGG4/InstallationVeiw.jpg Recent Work - Sold Out 2016 Installation view at the Angela Meleca Gallery. The work in ‘Sold Out’ adapts familiar iconography normally used to communicate a range of ideas spanning from local to global. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321282835-HA71Y0L1BGC110WEZUHN/2.US.jpg Recent Work - US 80”X80” 2016 A homage to color field painting through the statistics of the world military spending in 2005, the United States is represented here by raw canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321505534-2A917HVW9ZBUAZV3GPZP/5.Matrix.jpg Recent Work - Matrix 40”X120” 2016 Disclaimer for the addiction to gambling found on a lotto ticket translated into code. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321993096-N2X8QKVHHNB359A1NXWQ/You.jpg Recent Work - You 9’X7’ 2016 An image based on an appropriated artist rendering of a Neanderthal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570322251489-V45ILIP8LSLE4EB3WPY1/Brutus.jpg Recent Work - Brutus 22”X20” 2016 Pixelated mascot, made of paint samples and graphite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570322404897-KZWRADHO5Y8T259V6P2J/Jesus.jpg Recent Work - Jesus 13’X6’X3’ 2016 My younger brother Eric made the original 13" version which hangs in our home. A quirky reminder of my brothers imagination at the age of 13 and the lack of all religion in my life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1637460562467-7GIYVRD640M36FZG00PM/09_Clock.jpg Recent Work - Clock 12”X12”X2” 2018 Clock hand (small wire) moves counter clock wise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570322756809-HJBZ0A2QCW36S3W8EHPX/Foundation1.jpg Recent Work - Foundation 5’X6’X7” 2016 40 index cards with the language of institutional branding. A mobile pyramid that floats and rotates as the viewers body approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570323101260-G8QQ5NHVNHSBGSXIGW5O/like.jpg Recent Work - Like 40”X40”X4” 2016 Update to Robert Indiana’s love sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570323262021-YOORQL10DFQKO8G9RLOG/Self.jpg Recent Work - Self 14”X12”X5” 2016 Ayn Rand with eyes cutout leaning on frosted Plexiglas, the pupils drawn on the wall resting on a platform made up of the fortune 500. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570323461628-65T8JBW9JEW27WI2F1R2/DSC_0124.jpg Recent Work - Tradition 5’X3’X1” 2016 Rural Lawn decoration repurposed and carved on both sides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570323576047-KA66VUU25XOTBLSS0YE6/DSC_0125.jpg Recent Work - Tradition 5’X3’X1” 2016 Rural Lawn decoration repurposed and carved on both sides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570486459722-5XD62F39T9L9IFQ0BQFF/Power.jpg Recent Work - Powers 2016 84”X24” Based on “The 48 laws of power” by Robert Greene, a Machiavellian collection of mantras, designed to control and manipulate people from the top down. The books thesis epitomizes the state of our current political and corporate culture; I can imagine that every CEO and Politician has taken the content to heart. Using press type, white out and quill pens I created a family tree with all the limbs sawn off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570487018134-421QW9NT13DSXU0SWIWD/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Angela Meleca Gallery - SOLD OUT Video by Erek Nass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636150167989-PYWLS76F7ZUX8Z7ZBTW9/DSC_0060+copy.jpg Recent Work - Citizens United 60”X40”X40” 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636503601768-KO7WJ7R0VKF58Q7FJ1VY/DSC_0024+copy.jpg Recent Work - Power (Detail top) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1727471933927-MHT0OINZ934XKVMT479M/image-asset.jpeg Recent Work - Gun Show 3 https://www.timrietenbach.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683077-TVOC3BQ0D2BEHR968X6M/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - The Ghost of Reaganomics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570151613502-GLERT4WM7TJGNAPTJ1HG/Hard+Rain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain, in progress Borrows its title from the enigmatic Dylan song, this mock beaded curtain is a work in progress. Populated by the heads of people that work for weapons manufacturers. Cross referencing an alphabetical list of companies with a google image search of employees. In its current state it includes the companies from Algeria to Turkey. The US dominates this industry potentially making the finish work triple in size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683077-TVOC3BQ0D2BEHR968X6M/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - The Ghost of Reaganomics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570157642252-3M1JGK2I8OI6URUG9F1K/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1588512169795-O4HEWWFCJ7NCAILF16NO/Hard%2BRain.jpg Pandemic https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/5d969b98f66ca103b9f09635/5d969c768de54a6843dd5d47/1793998539225/ Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998608785-PINBUL14DOJTVZT27D8D/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683278-3AS2OM0Q7XQZRG3OQTW9/Detail Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827776709-UMDZL0UEYE5LW8BBNW7N/HardRain.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827831112-74B84JP30TR07OW7UX2U/Rain.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827841164-BXWKIFHRQXA7MAO44FX2/Lungs.jpg Pandemic - Last Breath 18”X18”X8” 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827849583-KZU2CBG8HZH0C592VZM7/Baton1.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980984080-6ZFHNLVME5A5G0JH144A/Business+jpg.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980419431-NR9J53LT5JWT0I19M36U/Business+2.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794000260334-WQ2M7DC6FQ6FSW3ZM04X/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705978977532-WGNZUOWOAM7NJOYNC2CX/Rock.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705979987525-YE21A833ATLJ1NGPXNG0/Family.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980317918-KLPI588WOXLOI69MI4IN/Rock%2CDetail.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635381225344-VIRTXHWPT3RO9JZVM1MF/6+Pedestal.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998499467-AMDQE3R65AG546KK3ETZ/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://www.timrietenbach.com/past-work daily 0.75 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489064222-019HZAYIUE9TR1GS6SFU/TheMan.jpg Past Work - The Man 20’X24"‘X12’ 2015 Reverting back to childhood memory through the familiar process of making Puppets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489064222-019HZAYIUE9TR1GS6SFU/TheMan.jpg Past Work - The Man 20’X24"‘X12’ 2015 Reverting back to childhood memory through the familiar process of making Puppets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489193699-W04C1U4ZH7MA85L3K5LH/TheManDetail+copy.jpg Past Work - The Man (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489760741-WZ2DHAGSOOQZ0MDIH0SX/Screen+Shot+2018-09-07+at+7.22.56+PM.png Past Work - The Man (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489807768-00EJYT9XKD8UX9KW3RLQ/Rietenbach-Tim-The-Man-detail-2014-papier-mache-skulls.jpg Past Work - The Man (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901573295-LMMAYHZAIAWGWFQHR3ZH/Unknown+2.jpg Past Work - Billionaires 10’X20’ 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901647264-CLMCNHG2C8263FPZBHRJ/BillionaireSide.jpg Past Work - Billionaires (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901720408-2VZRXC8WBO5HIEB57MAJ/billionairedetail3.jpg Past Work - Billionaire (Detail reverse side) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901792744-LCKZVI280OY3XU2DHS9X/visionandartB137%5B1%5D.jpg Past Work - Billionaires (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489941875-8818650PMT4JYY2A8M43/Cornography.jpg Past Work - Cornography 7’X22’ 2013 GOP Politicians, eyes painted on the reverse surface allowing their flattened stares to follow your every movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489981401-8916JFKK0F7RUYZHVU61/c2e08071abc6101b9a40c4fbe9f266c9.jpg Past Work - Cornography Left side view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570490001555-WSOOQ6VUA0OO1OD85YV8/Tim_04.jpg Past Work - Cornography (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570490029832-KV9SPQY9HFCXE9SZKVVJ/TimRietenbach_03_1994.jpg Past Work - Cornography (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570495208026-EUAYWHODLZHUAYGUGX0K/Sub-Committee.jpg Past Work - Sub-Committee 5’X12’16” 2008 Clowns images scratched into the backside of painted bottles. The round shape of the glass plus the waters amplification allows each Clown to distort, as you get close their stares come to life and follow you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635703757150-FX4IXMLT18XREWOQOWRC/image-asset.jpeg Past Work - Sub-Committee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496138202-HLTSY8RKLWUEH2ZQ3WR9/Rietenbach.T_10+copy.jpg Past Work - Praying Hands 15’X6’X2’ 2007 Two graphic images separated on each side carved into the surface of holiday figures painted black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496429178-Y2TF7RQPKE3IICPBHXPV/Rietenbach.T_11.jpg Past Work - Praying Hands Side view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496487480-HZHU0CDONG2W8ETJQJI6/Praying+hands+angel+detail.jpg Past Work - Praying Hands (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496767153-KSRFEMUUY53VQBKSH284/7Gigantic+Springfield.jpg Past Work - Gigantic 100’X20’X 16’ 2003 Originally installed lying on it’s back trying to escape the confines of the Springfield Museum of Art and now looms over children in our local center of science and industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496910471-O7IBYBXSXRBSI02Q4K1V/Gigantic+ribcage.jpg Past Work - Gigantic (Detail) 100’X20’X 16’ 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496934887-XVZSUK5PI3829ZKAP4KD/SkullGigantic.jpg Past Work - Gigantic (Detail) 100’X20’X 16’ 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496960765-1IADXH5HXO0ZGD2TDOF4/Gigantic+03%5B1%5D.jpg Past Work - Gigantic (Detail) Center Of Science and Industry installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496985237-YNIE82PJJ0SNONLLX10U/DSCN2107.JPG Past Work - Gigantic (Detail) Center Of Science and Industry installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570497003130-0OAA0KDBTLRTHJW6ZG1N/COSIhand.jpg Past Work - Gigantic (Detail) Center Of Science and Industry installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570497049213-E1KM8PRH6G0VEAEK8AAW/COSIfoot.jpg Past Work - Gigantic (Detail) Center Of Science and Industry installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018204617-RA1C0QKCLG5URNVIUVLI/Emotocon.jpg Past Work - Emoticon 9’X18’X6’ 2010 Optimism took a beating in the first decade of the 21st century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018357121-F7PZMRKSW02TEYF5OK9I/Emoticondetail.jpg Past Work - Emoticon (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018377815-28X04VKG1NL6KDNS0Z01/Emotocondetail3.jpg Past Work - Emoticon (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018438739-CHFSAMN4LOBWXOAPX0VA/DSC_0252+copy.JPG Past Work - Emoticon (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734790804-3E4Z1ARD7NCSQ08CSSYW/Screen+Shot+2021-10-31+at+10.45.42+PM.png Past Work - Dollar Bill 2012 Pixelated painting on a real bill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018606792-14MI9DH01CBXQUXZ0206/DSCN0033.JPG Past Work - The Presidents of the United States of America 9’X30’X3’ 2006 Forty-two portraits rendered in human hair stuck in the adhesive of packing tape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018638111-J5QA03HS7P5OUABO5CF3/Pres.Detail3.jpg Past Work - The Presidents of the United States of America (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018682546-KH58DW1YDCDOAMF58TG4/Pres.detail5.jpg Past Work - The Presidents of the United States of America (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018867405-7YM7NFAA6TTAJ1PDFJ65/image-asset.jpeg Past Work - The Presidents of the United States of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734006589-WUXZF58EQQ93TZ84HHMY/Rietenbach.T_19+copy.jpg Past Work - Going To Hell 15’X 20’X3’ 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734037930-EVMLR53F7W96EKP8K2TB/Helldetail+copy.jpg Past Work - Going To Hell (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734056639-94K4HVGIKREB68C1V051/PICT3112+copy.jpg Past Work - Going To Hell (Detail) Each skeleton has a cardboard coffin and the turntables animated them like a beating heart that was connected to motion detectors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570497261636-LBGJJH0SDZU0WAFX6JK1/Rietenbach.T_9.jpg Past Work - Y2K 9’X12’X2” 2000 Miniature revolving Disco ball and the frozen stare mimics the media’s obsession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636035734760-ARNGGTA2YUI41AD7JEDZ/image-asset.png Past Work - YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635732843660-PXU98DTG8WJX79J9ECFT/DSCN8174.JPG Past Work - Army Man 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785258662-6D1JP3KUG56O6QXUEGAY/love..+copy.jpg Past Work - Love 14’X12”X12” 2004 Epic battle, emulating the stick figure battles drawn by my sons during their childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785463176-TUMD0CLFYZZHG6HLGZ69/DSCN3034.JPG Past Work - Love (Center Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785549178-E54R63DTY4C6GR4SZ2U1/love+detail.jpg Past Work - Love (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785610305-RL2GH6UXY1WI2TOI3BSP/love003.jpg Past Work - Love (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635817748735-EFD5HL6GADX5LX8J65FA/Party.jpg Past Work - Party 15’X6’X6’ 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818113501-89SQHKC6TBFNTL9MB5G3/%2310PartyDetail.jpg Past Work - Party (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903405326-QZ8SMONYOWTIR46TNFNQ/Rietenbach.T_6+copy.jpg Past Work - Evolution a Kick Ass Fight Scene 14”X42” 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903713720-LQ734X6Q1XAMEDLWRPH5/life002.jpg Past Work - Evolution a Kick Ass Fight Scene (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903683999-WW0RFCWBOKIPW3WO7ZN5/8+Evolution+Detail+.jpg Past Work - Evolution a Kick Ass Fight Scene (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903617536-S9JUQPD6OHWMSEAJGK0V/life001.jpg Past Work - Evolution a Kick Ass Fight Scene (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635904449034-CIHOLV67YDTGRQV5856K/DSC_0237+copy.jpg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony Dimensions Vary 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818265937-MBEG0B55MWJLJSL76FM5/Car4.jpg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) Dimensions vary 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818458868-D1E0R14Y5YQ479OIJALB/Tony.jpg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818474307-6NJRA4ZSXMB36ZZIIIZ2/Tony...jpg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818486372-NZTDTJT8Q74AAU001A4Y/DSC_0219.jpeg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635819821756-NLTJFQJR3HQK3TFZBHJU/flames.jpg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635819838085-V6S83OGU56UQRP6O5WFA/M0bbccc468ee5451acfa0cdf84833a8ca-1.JPG Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635819899998-1BTMN095TLLOG1K1893H/Tony.....jpg Past Work - Carwash to Bury Tony (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635999481792-2OXPS5UOBZMLD5H5HEK3/Rietenbach.T_8.jpg Past Work - Skull 60’X60’ 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000422509-B6VDKW43O6AV9Z9ET42E/Fear...jpg Past Work - Fear 97 (Left side view) 15’X10’X2’ 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635902002400-WJJKEAU6XO39MZMLJGR0/Feardetail.jpg Past Work - Fear 97 (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901857648-6IZ4U4C7C7WXJJYRT9FM/20+Fear+97+copy.jpg Past Work - Fear 97 15’X10’X2’ 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000621710-918VHSJIMAKYNYRSCXAM/Convention+copy.jpg Past Work - Convention 8’X6’X4” 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000778494-GOVAKRIRWM7E4L0CQ3O3/DSCN0314+copy.jpg Past Work - Convention (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000826413-E5Z6S565XMTOQM22M6HY/Nixon+detail+copy.jpg Past Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000873802-XYMFWAI8TFQ7AISRNLXY/ThisAmericanLife.jpg Past Work - This American Life 7’X7’X2” 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001176458-F1N6PO2Q9M8CVH1R0YN2/IMG_9305.jpg Past Work - This American Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001228759-746PMURQMCAE3C4VUGZF/IMG_9322.JPG Past Work - This American Life (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001322051-XG47APZ8T635NF4GPPWF/Home.jpg Past Work - Home 15’X15’2” 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001409956-Y3RN3UD2GR4ENIT76SZ4/Home.detail2+copy.jpg Past Work - Home (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001478693-G3QL0C88LIYKFUGV5QES/Headlessness1.jpg Past Work - Headlessness (inflated) 6’X3’X3’ 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001782309-8LW07VDK5ZLRVZ00O58N/Headlessness3.jpg Past Work - Headlessness (Deflated) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636037957723-E807GLLK8EJFDSLRLCH0/Swastika+copy+4+copy.jpg Past Work - Swastika 14’X19’ 3” 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636038709930-7SK4YSCRHMKD8HTJU20I/Swastika.center.jpg Past Work - Swastika (Detail center) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636038816158-CUIEAU4XF82B99U77VJT/Swastika+arrow.jpg Past Work - Swastika (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636038965176-LXP0PR6VNO72T7JBKOEJ/SwastikaShadow.jpg Past Work - Swastika (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152219466-HRG96R6J1WAASIELH66Z/Empty+sign+copy.jpg Past Work - Empty Sign 100’X19’X20’ 1997 Lights are activated by 14 motion detectors, lights flash on for 4 secs and illuminate as you circumvent the work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152305651-9BQQRZXFA48ASDSS7MTA/ESignleft.jpg Past Work - Empty Sign (left Side View) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152363621-ZQK2DX77KQ4Z55KN272X/Arrowlit.jpg Past Work - Empty Sign (Lit Detail) Motion detector activated https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152467700-AOEWPEPMNL3RUDB5UH48/Feb22-11.jpg Past Work - Empty Sign (unlit Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152532187-PTK88G4SFQEPBHTJYIGA/EmptySignend.jpg Past Work - Empty Sign (touching down) https://www.timrietenbach.com/past-work-1 daily 0.75 2021-11-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/t/617f2e8de74bb74b678ef4e2/1635724913313/ Past Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/617f2e1f28e228587360b717/617f2e71e72f1c0cb538a828/1635724913313/ Past Work https://www.timrietenbach.com/pandemic daily 0.75 2026-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148920272-Y5W1P33YCN6RBWA13RTS/Ghost+of+Reaganomics Pandemic - Ghost of Reaganomics 2019 - 15’X 13’X13’ - artificial tree trunk, steel, motor, tack hammer, wire, extension cord – The tack hammer is automated by the slowly revolving motor allowing it to tap the tree lightly, the slight vibration animates the branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148920272-Y5W1P33YCN6RBWA13RTS/Ghost+of+Reaganomics Pandemic - Ghost of Reaganomics 2019 - 15’X 13’X13’ - artificial tree trunk, steel, motor, tack hammer, wire, extension cord – The tack hammer is automated by the slowly revolving motor allowing it to tap the tree lightly, the slight vibration animates the branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148920072-LFOL33JU7HRO222K3CQK/Detail Pandemic - Ghost of Reaganomics (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794023539462-2QV4QIANRFPIA356JO9X/image-asset.png Pandemic - The Ghost of Reaganomics & Hard Rain Continued Video of details produced by my son Coal Rietenbach representing the two works in exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1588512169795-O4HEWWFCJ7NCAILF16NO/Hard%2BRain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain in progress 2019 - 15’X12’X2” - photo prints, hot glue, thread - Google searched, screen shot, print, cut into individual heads, a curtain made of the people that work for weapons manufacturing companies worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998608785-PINBUL14DOJTVZT27D8D/image-asset.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain in progress (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683678-0Z1DQ6QZAYWO4TD0V6GZ/Detail Pandemic - Hard Rain in progress (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1608928150970-Y6CDAV8Z2MIFHZ2X2Y31/Rain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain Continues (detail)} https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827776709-UMDZL0UEYE5LW8BBNW7N/HardRain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain Continues 2019/2020 – 9’X9’ - photo prints - This more densely populated collection is made up of the heads of US weapons manufacturer employees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998499467-AMDQE3R65AG546KK3ETZ/2.Punch_Drunk.jpg Pandemic - Punch Drunk 2020 – 84”X168”X2” - Photocopy, chalk paint, thread – My first attempt at describing the Universe using five pointed stars as positive and negative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980419431-NR9J53LT5JWT0I19M36U/Business+2.jpeg Pandemic - Business 2022 – 16”X17”X3” - Briefcase, color aid paper, matt medium, gun – Businesses/fetish object conceals a gun covered in the same pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794000260334-WQ2M7DC6FQ6FSW3ZM04X/IMG_1925+%281%29.jpeg Pandemic - Business (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705979987525-YE21A833ATLJ1NGPXNG0/Family.jpg Pandemic - Family (right side view) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980317918-KLPI588WOXLOI69MI4IN/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - Family (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705978834067-VNRUJWNS9IGRPRUKJO83/image.jpg Pandemic - Family 2023 – 28”X18”X18” - wood, sculptamold, paint, modeling paste, fluorescent ink – Billionaires listed, at the time 2,611 names inked in formal cursive with a quill pen circumventing the rock-like form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794003546472-C350BH94S1YAJ3BVB1F2/image-asset.png Pandemic - Baton (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794002248124-5JEAYZV7DIZWWJO5XJYT/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - Globe 2021 - 18”x18” Two images of the globe off register, printed on opposite sides of transparent plexiglas. An attempt to represent the moment when the world came to a stand still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1608931614366-QNDLFLYGOG59NRXNVPVC/Baton1.jpg Pandemic - Baton 2019 – 32”X5”X5” - dowel rod, enamel paint, toothpicks – Commemorating the moment when Police were beating people protesting police brutality while the virus ravaged, I whittled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635381225344-VIRTXHWPT3RO9JZVM1MF/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - Pedestal 2021 – 60”X16”X16”- Book bag, Plexiglas, Matte medium, photocopy My Book bag worn throughout Trump’s presidency, the lenticular eyes wink. The bag is stuffed and sewn shut and resting on Pence’s distorted head printed on the Pedestal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635644673172-RGO3OS8TX4XU3PVAE5P4/5+last+Breath+copy.jpg Pandemic - Lungs 2022 – 18”X18”X4” - neck pillow, India ink, white chalk paint – During lung cancer treatment the hospital gifted me a neck pillow with a trachea graphic, I stained and layered it with paint. https://www.timrietenbach.com/fake daily 0.75 2026-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164662537-UET3T80LDPBHC962HN3R/8.Signature.jpg Fake - Signature 16”X12”X3” 2018 - A forged version of Trump's signature made with sculpy clay and plaster embedded in a re-purposed frame painted and glittered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164662537-UET3T80LDPBHC962HN3R/8.Signature.jpg Fake - Signature 16”X12”X3” 2018 - A forged version of Trump's signature made with sculpy clay and plaster embedded in a re-purposed frame painted and glittered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150663878-DIQ8PODZDXQL878Q8TPG/scrapbook.jpg Fake - World Book 20”X11”X9” 2018 - Damaged when my office flooded this piece is made of pages from an old book of world maps. The damage seemed prophetic given the threatening rise in sea levels. Made through several processes but ultimately lamented and made to be held together by a three-ring mechanism. All the maps have been removed only leaving the blurred language describing the world views. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164354385-OI88FUH9PVD5MWETYXUF/1.Recess.jpg Fake - Recess 6’X4’X5” - 2018 - The entire congressional body, seen here as an act of double erasure. Each politician’s head erased in photoshop, brought together as a group, printed on cloth and disassembled one horizontal thread at a time, leaving only the vertical image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150660077-HLAU0UPFKPB4TKE6VP4Z/recess+detail+copy.jpg Fake - Recess (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162910310-8T8P97WXXHCP08ZTZ57O/4.Greatness.jpg Fake - Greatness 12’X8’ 2018 - A stylized version of the mainland map made of pegboard. Inspired by a map of the militia locations throughout the country (they are everywhere), the regressive climate of nostalgia and the ever present back to work rhetoric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164515996-EEIDLK43N6HWBKA7L6P7/DSC_0232.jpg Fake - The Red Party 12”X4’X4’ 2018. - 50 re-purposed self-standing photo frames (backing only) normally used to house family photos. The group was treated as if they were one single color field painting, many layers of paint applied to both sides ending with a red on the front and silver on the back. The final layers were applied during the thoughts and prayers discussion about the Vegas shooting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570163044750-O24GKREA7KN1AF4YNG8W/Investment.jpg Fake - Investment 5’X5’ 2018 - A collection of the logos of the 12 largest world banks reversed and upside down. Painted on transparent Plexiglas, the white paint is on the front face and the color is on the back. The logos have been flip upside down and reversed, do to symmetry, several remained the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150660579-09KDBWU1PDPRVO7EX2E9/the+mean..jpg Fake - The Mean 12”X18” each 2018 - A collection of 21 quotes that have been extracted from a larger quote expressing the viewpoint of the rich and successful. Hand-drawn letters surrounded by heavily varnished paper and outline in gold enamel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162174202-JAX4E8TAHXD8JCMUPW1T/Untitled-1.jpg Fake - 11/8/16 8’X20’ 2018 - Acceptance, Depression, Bargaining, Anger, Denial A suit of tombstone shaped paintings that stair step in size with equal measure like Russian dolls. Each has a familiar op image blown up out of focus that if stair directly into result in a pulsating disturbance and after images. Painting that you should not look into. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162436470-EM88N4B9BQBFYJ5Z0PTS/6.jpg Fake - Acceptance 48”X96 - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148906972-JVOAELY6LJLBLVFGVL5V/depression.jpg Fake - Depression 40”X88” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148907072-LVG0K3VIAY8C4B2Y2FXX/bargaining.jpg Fake - Bargaining 32”X80” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635645282731-JMQFI6WXIK52PJN8N8SV/Anger.jpg Fake - Anger 24”X72” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148906772-MVZVWYB78AB6DU2FU96E/denial.jpg Fake - Denial 16”X64” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164035844-5II0ASG6XTBO33BT6I7K/Floc+copy.jpg Fake - Floccinaucinihilipilification 6’X6’X1’ 2018 - One of the second largest words in the English language meaning; the estimation of something as worthless, this man’s jacket is made up of then candidate Trump’s most dismissive quotes frequently belittling women. Collaged together like a ransom note fully constructed with found text and glue, supported by a steel rod inserted in a concrete block. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164147965-ARDP5YOF5FNET9OGHX89/Floc.jpg Fake - Floccinaucinihilipilification (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164182317-TC9X0A1KPEJAXFK7DH1V/Screen+Shot+2018-09-19+at+3.48.40+AM.png Fake - Floccinaucinihilipilification (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636150167989-PYWLS76F7ZUX8Z7ZBTW9/DSC_0060+copy.jpg Fake - Citizen United 60”X40”X40” 2018 - A sad tree made of Papier Mache. Day of the dead meets US policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570163730169-URBSOGOKMVANH5CK2ZYY/Screen+Shot+2019-01-26+at+4.47.03+PM.png Fake - 2,864,974 8”X5”X1” 2018 The title is based on the amount of votes that led to Trumps election. Hilary embedded in the wall on a form that is designed to optically allow her face to follow your movement into profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570163845533-AMSD0UIKEJT6PR4C4HXJ/Screen+Shot+2019-01-26+at+4.47.20+PM.png Fake - 2,864,974 The Right side view, illustrating the illusion of her glance following the viewer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794029639724-NSSLMG2MH0NEHF1GYGIB/image-asset.png Fake Video Documentation by Eric Nass of the solo exhibition at Angela Meleca Gallery in downtown Columbus. 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